Panel #6: Trends in Urban Freight Development and Delivery
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Panel #6: Trends in Urban Freight Development and Delivery Suzann Rhodes, Wilbur Smith Associates
NCFRP 15: Urban Goods Movements
Purpose: Identify ways to accommodate and expedite goods movement while minimize envion’t and community consequences
• produce a single source document• geared to local officials
Product: Guidebook for local decision makers
Status: Draft to be vetted March 2011
Issues / Findings
• Land use and zoning is controlled by local governments
• Freight not priority of local planning offices
• MPOs, DOTs, Local officials just beginning to understand link – freight and economy
1st – educate/inform
• How freight moves• Where freight moves• Why freight moves• Who moves freight• Impacts
1st educate/inform link economy and QOL
• Grocery estimate product on shelves– Produce, frozen goods, meat, fish = 1-3 days; – Eggs, dairy = 2 days– Dry goods = up to 7 days
• To make that work, stores receive deliveries from warehouses every single day
Next: Relationships codes to freight efficiency
Relationship of Codes, Ordinances and Regulations to Freight Efficiency Freight Efficiency Impact
Code, ordinance or regulation
Time in transit Distance
Quality of infrastructure Access
Parking x x x x
Time of day delivery x x
Truck size and weight x x
Truck routing x x x
Building codes, design x x
Infrastructure design x x x x
Land use patterns x x x
Policies Time in transit
Distance Quality of
infrastructure Access
Enforcement x x Consideration of freight in infrastructure project selection and construction
x x x x
Next – how to
• Case studies• Examples and ideas
Source: Wilbur Smith Associates, 2010
Source: Wilbur Smith Associates, 2010
Source: Wilbur Smith Associates, 2010
Source: Wilbur Smith Associates, 2010
Source: Wilbur Smith Associates, 2010
Source: Wilbur Smith Associates, 2010
Source: Wilbur Smith Associates, 2010
Source: Wilbur Smith Associates, 2010
Source: Wilbur Smith Associates, 2010
Source: Wilbur Smith Associates, 2010
Source: Wilbur Smith Associates, 2010
Source: Wilbur Smith Associates, 2010
WHAT ARE THE THREE MOST IMPORTANT ITEMS
• Educate local officials – impacts on freight and freight’s impact on their
economy
• Educate private sector and transportation professionals– How to and who to engage
• Need to offer realistic improvements